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Lunch with the Clydesdale - Keeping the Festival Feel at the CrossFit Games · Clydesdale Media Podcast

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what is up lunch crew what's
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going on I am halfway
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through my last work day of
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the week um and then I get
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to hang out with a bunch of
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super fit masters athletes
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the rest of the week so
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freaking pumped oh my gosh
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we got john george we got
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helson we've got vicky in
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the chat already
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I'm going to throw a quick dart.
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It's probably useless or futile.
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Maybe I'm just too old to
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throw a dart these days.
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A lot better than it's been,
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but still not good enough.
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We got Jody.
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We got Meredith.
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What is going on, Amanda?
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Yeah, good to see you guys.
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Nice thumbnail.
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What is that about?
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Um, it,
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I was thinking seven K run this week for,
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uh, the masters athletes.
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So I just, um, had a,
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I make a cartoon of all
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that kind of stuff.
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So, yeah.
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Um,
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So one,
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this is my last work day of the week.
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Thank God.
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Um,
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every Tuesday I have a meeting that never,
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ever,
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ever stays within the timeframe it's
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scheduled for.
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Uh, I hate that.
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And it's almost like they're
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trying to make up topics to
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go to the whole end of the meeting.
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Just let us go.
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Come on, man.
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Anyway, here we are.
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Um,
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We got Arlene Smith.
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That's a new name.
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AZ Zaki.
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Arlene Smith.
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Jody Lynn.
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Oh, yeah,
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that's a good representation of
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the seven K. Although
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laying flat on the ground would be me.
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Yeah, probably me, too.
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Although back, back before I got,
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I hurt my back and I lost all the weight.
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I did a quarter marathon, which is a ten K,
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a little more than a ten K.
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That's the most I've ever run.
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I could not walk for two days.
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I was just wrecked, wrecked, wrecked,
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wrecked.
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And I swore I was never,
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ever going to do that much again.
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It was a six point five,
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six point five miles, maybe.
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I don't know, but it was a lot.
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Oh, my gosh,
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there's my old partner catch
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here in the house.
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What's going on?
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So yesterday,
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Bob Jennings shows up on the
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Get With The Programming podcast and
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And one of the funniest
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things ever is John George
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was in the chat,
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and he was letting Bob know
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exactly how he felt about
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the programming.
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And I get a text from Jamie and Carolyn,
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and they're going,
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John George is all of us.
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Yeah.
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And I thought, he so is.
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He is so representing all of
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the Masters athletes and
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their feelings as to where
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this programming is going
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and the explanations he is being given.
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And he's not accepting any of it.
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And it was freaking
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hilarious that they sent
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that text in while that was going on.
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John was keeping us very,
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very entertained in the
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chat during that interview.
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that whatever you want to call it.
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Yeah.
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Corey says he never got to
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watch that show.
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It was not good, man.
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I don't think any of the
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explanations even made sense.
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John George, no one would speak up.
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The guy is a horrible programmer.
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Love you guys.
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You're my peeps.
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And a laughy face.
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Hellson expected more from that show.
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I mean, the little bits I was throwing in,
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they weren't even addressing anyway.
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Like,
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the lift is all the athletes in the
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heat lifting at the same
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time with then a long rest for everybody.
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And when asked why not doing
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it more staggered,
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the answer was it was too
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complicated to do,
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and they didn't want to confuse people.
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Well,
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that would be the least complicated
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thing in the programming.
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Some of their workouts don't
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even make sense until
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they're explained a little bit more,
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and I don't even think they
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make more sense then.
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I mean,
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staggering the lift on a floor is
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just a math equation.
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How many athletes do you
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need to go at the same time
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divided by how much time you have?
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And then you have like two
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athletes go at the same
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time or three athletes go.
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And then you rotate through
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the minutes and everybody
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has the same time.
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It ain't complicated.
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But there's way more wrong
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with that programming.
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And everybody's speaking up.
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Hiller.
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had his piece yesterday.
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Um,
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John George spoke for all masters
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athletes yesterday in the
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get with the programming.
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I was really,
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I was really disappointed
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with how that show went because it,
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it almost seemed like the
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guys on the show were,
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were encouraging him to
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even become more biased.
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Um,
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it, it just, I mean, he talks about that.
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He programs against his biases.
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There's no, there's no gym.
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Carolyn keeps saying this.
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There's no high school
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gymnastics or no gymnastics
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volume before the cut.
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So you're cutting people
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without ever testing a gymnastics piece.
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And, um,
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And that, that,
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and so he is biased towards the strength.
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That's the type of athlete he was.
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That is the type of programmer he is.
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I've heard him admit it over
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and over again that he loves it heavy.
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Um, and,
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and every piece of lifting in
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every workout is,
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is pushing the envelope of
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what is heavy and what is not.
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And for Bill Grundler to say, um, um,
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These people are at the games.
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They need to be pushed.
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They need to be pushed.
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Well,
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my argument is they need to be pushed
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on the gymnastic skills as well.
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You can't push one without the other.
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It has to have balance.
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And it is obvious that this
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programming does not have balance.
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It is ridiculous that they
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take out the high-skill
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gymnastics because they're
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afraid people will be
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standing around looking at
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a handstand push-up or a
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handstand walk when there
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are going to be people
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standing around looking at
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a barbell because you've
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programmed it too heavy.
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What's the difference?
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Why is one acceptable and
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the other one is not?
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And last I checked,
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you program for the best
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and you scale for the rest.
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And if you got to the
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CrossFit Games and you
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can't do one of these gymnastics moves,
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that's on you.
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And that's how you should be.
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And you should have to stand
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and stare at an apparatus
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or stare at what the next
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movement is if you did not
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build yourself up for that.
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Again,
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encouraging the pushing of the
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envelope on the weights is
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fine if you're going to
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push the envelope on the gymnastics,
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and that you are not doing.
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It was a PR show.
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He is paying Chase, let's be honest.
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He called handstand walks a party trick.
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Are you kidding me?
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Wonder how Dave felt about that comment.
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know the games has had
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handstand walks what I
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every year for at least the
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last ten years trying to go
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through them all in my head
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really fast I mean
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handstand walk's been a
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major part of the crossfit
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games so to say that that's a party trick
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Man,
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I know my friend Denise Moore has been
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working on handstand walks
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at age sixty seven ish.
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I think she is.
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And the fact that she has
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worked on them and got them
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should be rewarded at the CrossFit Games,
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not hidden because three of
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the other people in that
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division didn't work on it.
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Are you kidding me?
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As an aspiring Masters Games athlete,
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the majority of us want the skill work.
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I can do the vast majority of them.
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So like, the mindset of that just boggles,
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boggles me.
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Like, I get you want to push the athletes,
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but push them in a balanced way,
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not just in weights,
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in every aspect of the programming.
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But I'm going to jump off of that for now,
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and I'm going to talk about
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Dave's Week in Review
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because I'm going to be
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down there all weekend and
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hopefully doing the lunch
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show live from the H Group CrossFit Games,
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and I'll give you updates
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of what I see on the floor, etc.,
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But in Dave's Week in Review,
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there's a lot of talk about
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bringing back the festival
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atmosphere of the CrossFit
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Games and bringing the age
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groups back to the CrossFit Games,
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maybe in the same city,
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but earlier in the week.
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And I'm all for that.
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I'm all for that.
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And I think this is where...
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Matt Souza.
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And I,
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and I know it's on the thumbnail is
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Matt Souza genius.
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He made a proposal back in
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June that I don't think got enough,
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got enough recognition.
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And that is if you're going
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to buy CrossFit,
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you need to create a new
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CrossFit headquarters.
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And I'm going to share the, um,
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ai drawing he had done and
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this is this is what he
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would want for crossfit hq
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and if you notice it's got
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some buildings but it also
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has workout areas it has an
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outdoor stadium and it has
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like a little mini stadium
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with a rig over here um and
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he says this is the crossfit mecca
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Wouldn't make it exactly look like this,
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but you get the idea.
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Create a physical location, a destination,
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CrossFit HQ with an
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affiliate campus to run classes,
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host seminars,
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a media studio with
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multiple podcast show sets,
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and host the CrossFit Games there.
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And what I think is cool
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about this is instead of
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moving it around from year
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to year with all the
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expense of what they talk about,
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like why they can't go to
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Madison anymore is they
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have to construct that
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outdoor stadium and they have in the,
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the arena,
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they have to do some extra
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stuff and that's a lot of money.
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Well, why not build it once in a,
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in an HQ location and, um,
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and keep it there year after
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year after year.
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And that way,
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you're not constructing it every year.
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Yes, it's an initial expense,
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but you could also rent it
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out for other events.
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You could partner with other events.
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And the way this looks,
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you could almost find like,
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an old abandoned high school
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and renovate it or something like that.
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And just kind of do that
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somewhere in the middle of the country.
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And the fact that you could
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have like seminars there,
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you could do demonstrations
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there and all these kinds of things,
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I think makes sense if you
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want both the methodology
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to grow and the sport to grow.
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the same time it minimizes
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your costs because you have
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it in one location the
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setup for every year
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becomes much easier much
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less expensive yes it is a
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pricey initial investment
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unless you can find like
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that old abandoned high
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school uh to do something
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like this and then the only
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thing I would add to this
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drawing is a place
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to have an RV camp.
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So that people can come camp
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for the big events.
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People can come hang out.
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And you can hold so many
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more events throughout the year.
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And not only on the sports side,
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but from a seminar side,
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things like that.
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I think it is the one way
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that you could really make
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the whole thing more economical.
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Yes.
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Big initial investment.
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But after you build it,
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then the expenses become
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less and less and less.
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A lot of that would be cool,
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but pricey from Meredith.
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He had a great idea.
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Agree with this.
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Two hundred percent.
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Such a great idea.
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This would mean that the new
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buyers are committing for the long haul.
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It would pay for itself.
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They could have rogue retail outlet store,
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put it in a bigger city,
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centrally located,
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so many things they could
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do to generate revenue.
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If you build it, they will come.
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I was going to say parking.
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Well,
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parking RV lot could be the same thing.
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It could be parking for some
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parts of the year and it
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could be an RV park for other parts.
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George Wang,
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you'd have to rent that out
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for non-CrossFit events to
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make it financially feasible.
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I don't disagree and I think
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that they should.
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take over a zombie mall,
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use the anchors for events
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and the concourse for the
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sponsor locations.
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That's an idea too.
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Yeah,
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there's a lot of real estate out
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there that is abandoned
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that maybe they could grab.
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I mean,
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just looking at the football-type
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stadium and the tennis court-type stadium,
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I'm sure there are some
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high schools that have
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closed that are available
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to have at least that
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aspect of it already in place.
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George Wanks has put in some
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pickleball courts.
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It would be one hundred percent utilized.
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Well, Meredith,
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I think we need a buyer
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with a vision anyway,
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and I don't know where
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we're going to get that or
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where it would come from.
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But geez.
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Yes, we need vision.
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All right.
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So, um,
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I love like Matt Sousa has some
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great ideas.
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This is one of,
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this is one that I just truly,
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truly adore.
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Um,
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and hope that someone would have the
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foresight to do something like this.
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Yeah, I'm going to leave it at that.
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Um,
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A couple other things that
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Dave was talking about in
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his week in review that I
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thought was interesting was
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the not CrossFit games.
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Having athletes come in and
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do things that aren't to
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find the fittest on earth,
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but just to challenge them athletically.
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And that could be another
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event that you could hold.
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I'm thinking he's thinking at the ranch.
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But at a CrossFit HQ like this,
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you could have those types
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of events all the time.
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All the time.
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Of course,
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NII would be jazzed if this were real.
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I would be beyond jazzed, beyond jazzed,
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if CrossFit HQ had this
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type of forethought.
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Um,
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but I thought that the not CrossFit
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games was a, was a cool idea.
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It's like taking max bar.
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I think he started with max
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box jump height.
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And then he thought we could
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do softball throw or javelin throw,
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or like you could do NFL combine stuff,
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four yard dash.
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And you could, um, have all this fun stuff,
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uh,
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And almost like if you're old, like me,
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like a battle of the
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network stars or the
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superstars events where they would,
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the superstars is probably
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the best where they would
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bring in athletes from different sports,
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have them do different
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things athletically,
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and then see who is the
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best at this combination.
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And it's also a way to bring
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in someone from the like
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football world or someone
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from the baseball world and
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see how do you compete with the
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um with these crossfitters I
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think that would be fun um
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you could do a lot of
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interesting things with
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that concept and I that I
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think that's one of dave's
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best ideas um I think
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that's a good way to
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promote the sport do a
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little crossover with some
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other other sports
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and show where CrossFitters
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stack up against football players,
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against baseball players,
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against wrestlers.
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Vicky said,
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the show The Challenge did an
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all-star show like that.
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It was interesting to see
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pro athletes in a different environment.
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I have not seen.
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I've watched The Challenge a lot.
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I have not seen the pro athlete one.
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I'll have to go look for that.
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Corey says pros versus Joes.
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Well, kind of,
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except if you don't have Joes,
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you have the like pro
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athletes and you have CrossFitters.
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Like I'm saying like Jason Hopper,
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like James Sprague, like Tia,
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Claire to me,
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those types of athletes
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competing against other
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people in other sports,
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like Rhonda Rousey,
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or I'm just throwing out names.
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I'm, I'm old.
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I don't know everybody, but
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You'd have to have Mr.
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Bajent be the emcee.
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He'd crush it.
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John, we're there.
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Same wavelength, buddy.
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Same wavelength right there.
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Yep.
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Like Tyson Bajent, yes.
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Bring in an NFL quarterback
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and have him go
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head-to-head in some stuff
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that's not typical to the
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CrossFit games and just go
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kind of head-to-head.
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Now, Dildo, that's not, no.
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Not Colton Mertens versus
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LeBron in a dunk contest.
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If you remember the old superstars,
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which some of you probably
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aren't old enough to,
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you weren't allowed to
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compete in any event that
22:44
was based on your main sport.
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You could only,
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so they had like ten events.
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You had to sign up for like seven,
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and you were not allowed to
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sign up for any event that
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was around your main skill set.
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Okay, fine.
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You can have Travis Kelsey.
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Okay.
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Still not a fair competition
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with poor Colton.
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Travis was the emcee back in the day.
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I know.
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And he's awesome at it.
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So awesome at it.
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Because you'd want someone
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that was talking smack
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while they were doing it.
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Like it needs to be that
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full entertainment of like
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these pro athletes versus
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these CrossFitters and like
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calling them out when
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something's not going well, it,
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it has to be someone like him.
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have the nfl combine within
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the games it would give
23:50
context to how fit the
23:51
athletes are when compared
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to athletes the masses
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watch so I think that's the
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concept but dave wants to
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make it a separate event
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and not like in the crossfit games
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If we go to this like
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CrossFit HQ where you have
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this big facility and you
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can have these things all year round,
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that would be freaking awesome.
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I think Dave's view at this
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point is let's bring them
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out to the ranch and let's
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do these things and test them like this.
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George Wang says, a few years ago,
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Randy Moss used to run
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CrossFit-type classes here in Charlotte.
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That's pretty freaking cool.
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I can hear Travis telling
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some poor soul struggling to do Fran.
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Not so easy now, is it?
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Yep.
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How do you think egos would
24:54
do if Tia beats males?
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I think this has been,
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I don't think Tia beats a
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whole lot of males.
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But unless it's a running
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body weight type competition,
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I want to see games
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athletes dive off a ten meter platform.
25:23
I did that once in my life, Doug.
25:26
Once.
25:28
Once it was horrible.
25:30
I could not believe how long
25:31
you are free falling from a
25:33
ten meter platform.
25:35
It is much,
25:36
much longer than you think it is.
25:41
But I think it's a great idea.
25:43
Great idea.
25:51
Yeah.
25:53
So other than that, like
25:56
the weekend review was
25:57
pretty non newsworthy,
26:00
but I did think that was
26:01
some interesting stuff.
26:03
There's really a lot about
26:04
the festival vibes, bringing that back.
26:07
I think there is a big demand for that.
26:10
Um, but I do agree that,
26:15
that a lot of that is
26:17
expensive in the way
26:18
they're doing it currently.
26:20
They would have to do that.
26:22
Um,
26:26
would have to find a way
26:27
like what matt souza um
26:32
suggests having a facility
26:35
to kind of just do it
26:36
yearly so I don't know um
26:45
jason hopper would hit the
26:46
water like a bag of wet cement
26:49
Man,
26:49
it is – if you've never done it off a
26:52
ten-meter – if you've never
26:53
– I just jumped.
26:54
I did not dive.
26:56
If you have ever jumped off
26:59
a ten-meter platform,
27:00
you got to do it one time.
27:02
You will not believe how
27:05
long you are free-falling
27:07
until you hit water.
27:09
It is way longer than I
27:10
thought it would be.
27:13
At least it felt that way.
27:15
It may have only been a couple seconds,
27:17
but in my mind, it felt like a long time.
27:22
And I did it incrementally.
27:23
I went to five meter.
27:25
I went to seven and a half meter,
27:27
and then I went to ten meter.
27:33
It's crazy.
27:38
Jess says cannonball.
27:42
better have those bubblers
27:43
in the water that break the
27:45
surface um yeah there's
27:50
actually a la a girl on
27:53
tick tock I reels whatever
27:56
she does like super high
27:58
stuff like thirty meter
28:01
what she does is flipping amazing.
28:04
Uh, she's Canadian.
28:06
Um, and they, and a lot of,
28:08
if they're indoor,
28:09
they're like hanging from
28:10
the ceiling of these massive events, um,
28:16
venues.
28:18
I think it's, it might be not,
28:19
it may not be.
28:21
But it's way up there.
28:22
It's way higher than ten.
28:24
And every time you get the
28:25
camera angle from up there,
28:26
I want to just vomit.
28:29
Um,
28:34
Denise wants to know who the
28:35
hell invented the ten-meter
28:37
diving board and why.
28:38
Well, there's no diving board.
28:40
You're just going off of a platform.
28:42
It is a static piece of metal,
28:48
and it does not move.
28:53
I want to see Ricky Mack do
28:54
a gainer off the high dive.
29:00
Hopper versus Colton Cannonball Contest.
29:06
NAI wants to know if
29:07
someone's afraid of heights, Denise.
29:27
Watched Dodd's video with my
29:30
son a few weeks ago.
29:32
Absolutely no way I could do that.
29:34
I don't know who Dodd is.
29:49
Dildo,
29:49
I've jumped off a thirty five to
29:50
forty foot cliff in Summersville,
29:52
West Virginia.
29:54
It's a bit unnerving.
29:56
I can't even met the people
29:57
that jump off cliffs
29:58
because then you got to clear it.
30:00
You got to clear the rock
30:02
and then get to the water.
30:07
Dodds is a new diving sport.
30:11
I have to check that out.
30:15
Denise is not only afraid of heights,
30:17
but also deep water.
30:18
Yet diving is not her thing.
30:28
Jay Birch wants to know if
30:29
there's a best transport in Columbus.
30:32
I'm an Uber guy.
30:33
Uber or Lyft, whatever's cheaper.
30:35
I have both apps.
30:36
I pull them both up and see
30:37
whichever one is cheaper at the moment.
30:41
If you're flying in,
30:42
it's not very far from the
30:44
airport to the venue.
30:46
And your hotel is on campus,
30:49
so not much further than that.
30:52
Shouldn't be too hefty of a
30:55
Uber Lyft cost for you.
31:01
But yeah,
31:03
plenty of Ubers and Lyfts at the airport.
31:11
Oh, Dodds means death diving.
31:15
Good to know.
31:15
Good to know.
31:21
Wow.
31:25
Mark Phillips did the same search.
31:28
Yeah, nope for me.
31:29
Yeah, I'm out.
31:30
I'm out.
31:35
that's crazy so yeah so
31:43
everybody's getting into
31:43
town I'm getting DMS from
31:46
athletes asking for
31:47
recommendations now Jay
31:49
Burch is on here getting
31:50
some recommendations it's
31:52
getting fun it's getting
31:53
real can't wait to see everybody
31:57
And I really debated doing this next thing,
31:59
but this is hopefully the
32:02
last time I need to address this.
32:07
But yesterday,
32:08
I think on one of the Motor
32:10
recent Dents updates,
32:14
Jenny had asked Lauren
32:16
Khalil in a Lauren Khalil
32:18
show about me calling her out
32:24
And she gave a response that I just,
32:27
I need to address briefly
32:31
and I'm not going to labor
32:32
belabor the point.
32:33
I want this to be over.
32:35
I don't.
32:38
So, um,
32:41
I'm going to play the clip and then,
32:43
and then I want you guys,
32:45
I just want to respond really quickly.
32:48
Kalil was live on her
32:50
YouTube channel the other day,
32:52
and I asked her how she
32:54
felt about Clydesdale
32:55
Media's Scott Schweitzer
32:57
basically calling her out and saying, hey,
32:59
in the past,
33:00
you've been really mean to
33:01
the females on my media team.
33:03
You've been a bit of a bully.
33:05
And she addresses it.
33:06
I mean,
33:06
I messaged Scott directly about
33:10
that just to gain some
33:11
clarity and ask him about it.
33:12
And him and I had a
33:13
conversation back and forth.
33:15
And
33:16
I'm never going to accuse
33:17
somebody of lying because
33:20
their experience is their experience.
33:23
I know the things that I'm
33:27
being accused of saying,
33:28
even on my worst day,
33:30
are not in character of
33:31
what I would ever say to anybody,
33:33
even on my worst day.
33:35
So it came from somewhere.
33:37
So I really don't know where
33:38
the lines cross.
33:40
I do got to... So...
33:44
With that,
33:47
saying that I don't want to
33:49
accuse anybody of being a liar,
33:51
but everybody's experience
33:52
is their experience.
33:56
I told you guys when this first came out,
33:59
attack my family and I get pissed.
34:04
So saying that Cheryl and
34:07
Jamie lied to me really pissed me off.
34:12
Because once they told me this stuff,
34:16
I went and I went out onto
34:18
the floor at the next event
34:20
and saw some of the same
34:22
stuff with my own eyes.
34:24
I also want to point out
34:25
that in the initial video
34:27
that Hiller put out,
34:28
he said that other female
34:30
people in the space told
34:32
him the same thing.
34:33
He just didn't want to
34:34
release their names because
34:36
they were valuable
34:37
resources and sources and
34:40
didn't want to expose them
34:42
or lose them as a source.
34:45
So this is not just me saying this.
34:48
There are other people out
34:49
there saying the same thing.
34:51
And just don't call my people a liar.
34:56
And she did reach out to me.
34:59
And I will say that our
35:00
conversation was very
35:01
similar to how she talked right here.
35:04
And at the end of the day,
35:05
it was just left as it was.
35:09
But I want this... I really
35:10
just... I don't care about
35:14
her access anymore.
35:15
I don't care what CrossFit
35:17
decides to do with those things.
35:20
I just want me and my team
35:22
to be able to do what we want to do.
35:25
That is what I am worried about.
35:27
But don't call my people liars.
35:30
Don't.
35:34
So...
35:37
Anyway, and she said, like,
35:40
what I'm accused of saying
35:43
is not typical of my character.
35:47
What she said wasn't, like,
35:50
that doesn't even make
35:51
sense to what I said.
35:54
She said, like,
35:55
I get first dibs on
36:00
interviews because I'm with
36:02
the broadcast team.
36:04
How is that out of character to say that?
36:07
Um, I, it, I don't even,
36:11
it doesn't even make
36:12
freaking sense to me.
36:14
Um, man,
36:17
I I've known Jamie now for a
36:20
handful or gosh, a couple of years now.
36:24
I mean,
36:24
there's nobody more trustworthy
36:25
than she is.
36:27
And Cheryl's never lied to me.
36:30
Like, so I don't get it.
36:38
Um, Jamie's character is unquestionable.
36:40
She has no reason to lie about anything.
36:43
I agree.
36:51
Fergie starting a CrossFit
36:52
ride share called lift,
36:53
which features blacklist
36:55
videos of behind the scenes,
36:57
backlist videos of behind the scenes.
37:00
That's nice.
37:05
You trusted but verified
37:06
what was going on exactly.
37:08
I did.
37:18
John George agreed to disagree.
37:20
She is on a sinking ship.
37:21
Let her sink on her own.
37:23
You guys are like George
37:24
Jefferson moving on up.
37:27
I really did debate it, John,
37:29
even bringing it up.
37:31
But I just am tired of
37:34
people calling my people liars.
37:37
They work very, very hard.
37:39
We do this basically out of
37:41
the goodness of our heart.
37:42
We don't get paid.
37:43
We're not sponsored.
37:45
We're out there struggling
37:47
to just do the best we can
37:49
because we love it.
37:51
We just love being out there.
37:53
And I just want Jamie to be recognized,
37:57
especially Jamie.
37:58
She's still with me today
38:00
and Carolyn for all the
38:02
hard work they put in.
38:03
I just want them recognized
38:04
for all that they do.
38:07
the time and all year long
38:08
all year long and that
38:10
they're not just some
38:12
fangirl out there trying to
38:13
get an interview they're
38:15
actually trying to do
38:16
something constructive and
38:21
a good quality to be able
38:23
to put out some content
38:26
from my channel and I love
38:28
them for that they're
38:30
awesome at it and can't
38:34
wait to see where we go in the future
38:41
Oh, Scott, you did the right thing.
38:43
Too many in the CrossFit
38:43
space have received a pass
38:45
for crap behavior.
38:47
Yeah.
38:50
Doug,
38:51
there's so much in my head that I've
38:52
never, ever said out loud to anybody.
38:56
The only reason this came
38:57
out is because I made an
38:59
off-handed comment when
39:02
we got enhanced access and
39:05
she didn't and I said karma
39:07
has come around and that's
39:09
the only way it even got
39:10
out there um because it was
39:12
obvious who it was I didn't
39:13
say her name um but it
39:15
broke out there and went
39:17
crazy um but yeah
39:23
there there are people that
39:24
are rude but there's so
39:25
many good people so many
39:27
good people in this space
39:28
um that are fun to hang out
39:30
with that do their job well
39:33
that let you do your job
39:34
well and let the chips fall
39:36
where they may uh eddie I
39:46
liked when you had allison
39:47
on her insights on the
39:48
workouts were cool to hear
39:51
Oh, Scuds.
39:52
Yeah.
39:54
I've been friends with Scuds
39:55
for a long time.
39:59
Yeah.
40:00
Maybe we'll have her on more often.
40:02
Or she can be a fill-in for
40:04
Jamie and Carolyn to give
40:05
them a week off.
40:07
Maybe something like that.
40:09
That would be fun.
40:15
Well, guys, with that...
40:18
I got to go finish the last
40:19
half of my workday and then
40:21
it will be all masters all
40:23
week live from the age group.
40:26
Well,
40:26
I say a masters could be some teen
40:29
stuff too.
40:30
I just don't know them as
40:31
well as I know the masters group.
40:34
So we'll see what happens
40:35
when we get down there.
40:37
I'm going to try to do the
40:38
shows live from the venue.
40:41
I have some mics, I have some headphones,
40:44
and I have my iPad.
40:45
So we'll be able to do that.
40:48
And then I'm going to have
40:49
Corey on tomorrow.
40:51
So we'll see what we talk about then.
40:54
And check in for Jamie and
40:56
Carolyn is at like ten and ten,
40:59
ten in the morning, ten, twenty,
41:01
something like that.
41:02
So I'll try to head over and
41:03
be there for that and get
41:05
some stuff of them getting their uniforms,
41:08
getting their check in stuff,
41:12
all that kind of stuff.
41:12
So that's the plan for tomorrow.
41:17
Can't wait to see you guys all then.
41:21
Have a good Wi-Fi signal, please.
41:22
I actually have.
41:27
Five G on my iPad,
41:30
so I don't need a Wi-Fi if
41:32
they don't have it.
41:36
And if I have to,
41:36
I'll go outside the venue
41:38
and do it from the street, maybe.
41:40
I don't know.
41:41
I'll figure it out.
41:42
I'll figure it out or find a
41:43
quiet place if I can.
41:46
With that, guys,
41:47
time for me to get back to work.
41:48
It's time for you
41:49
knuckleheads to get back to work.
41:51
And we'll see you live from
41:53
the Columbus Convention Center tomorrow.
41:56
Bye, guys.